Today in History

Births On This Day, April 9th 🎂

1975 Robbie Fowler
English footballer, manager

1971 Jacques Villeneuve
Canadian race car driver

1954 Iain Duncan Smith
Scottish captain, politician

1945 Steve Gadd
American drummer

1898 Paul Robeson
American singer, actor, activist

Deaths On This Day, April 9th 🪦

2011 Sidney Lumet
American director

2005 Andrea Dworkin
American activist, author

1976 Phil Ochs
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1959 Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect, designed the Price Tower, Fallingwater

1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German pastor, theologian
 

9th April

1413 Henry V was crowned King of England. He was the second English monarch from the House of Lancaster.

1483 The young Edward V acceded to the throne on the death of Edward IV. The boy was murdered in the Tower 75 days later, on 25th June.

1969 Sikh busmen in Wolverhampton won the right to wear turbans on duty after a long-running campaign. Conductors and drivers who are practising Sikhs also allowed to have long beards - another requirement for strict adherents of their faith.

2002 The funeral of the Queen Mother was held at Westminster Abbey.

2005 The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles were married, in a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in Windsor. Afterwards they returned to Windsor Castle for a service of blessing led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

2021 The death was announced of Prince Philip (aged 99) husband of Queen Elizabeth II for more than 70 years.
 


On This Day In History, April 10th

2010, The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, died in a plane crash
Several high-ranking officials, senior members of the Polish clergy, as well as relatives of the Katyn massacre victims were killed. The accident was blamed on pilot error and bad weather.

2001, Mercy killings became legal in the Netherlands
In a controversial decision, the Dutch senate approved a bill legalizing euthanasia for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.

1998, Negotiators in Northern Ireland reached a historic peace deal
The Good Friday Agreement ended 30 years of violent conflict about Northern Ireland's constitutional status (“The Troubles”).

1970, The Beatles broke up as Paul McCartney left the band
In their ten years of existence, the British rock group became one of the most successful bands of all time, selling over a billion albums, according to EMI. McCartney's announcement came a week before the release of his debut solo album, the starting point of a successful solo career.

1815, Mount Tambora exploded in one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history
At least 71,000 people were killed by the eruption. The explosion was heard up to 2000 km (1200 mi) away.
 

Births On This Day, April 10th 🎂

1987 Hayley Westenra
New Zealand soprano

1951 David Helvarg
American journalist, activist

1932 Omar Sharif
Egyptian actor

1847 Joseph Pulitzer
Hungarian/American politician, journalist, and publisher, founded Pulitzer, Inc.

1778 William Hazlitt
English critic, painter

Deaths On This Day, April 10th 🪦

1966 Evelyn Waugh
English author, journalist

1965 Linda Darnell
American actress

1955 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French/American priest, palaeontologist, philosopher

1931 Kahlil Gibran
Lebanese/American poet

1919 Emiliano Zapata
Mexican general
 
April 11th:
1814
Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates is exiled to island of Elba in Mediterrean
1890
Ellis Island in NYC is designated as immigration station
1945
4 soldiers from the U. S. Army 6th armored division liberate German concentration camp, Buchenwald freed thousands of prisoners including future Nobel prize winner, Elie Wiesel
1976
Apple 1 computer created by Steve Wozniak is released, cost $666.66 There are about 50 still in existence
2015
U.S. Pres Obama&Pres Raul Castro meet in Panama,1st meeting of heads of state since the Cuban Revolution
2023
NHL hockey team, Boston Bruins break record of team points in 1 season at 133. Montreal Canadiens held the record at 132 since 1977
 
April 12th:
1892
George Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter
1934
world record wind speed was recorded on Mt Washington, New Hampshire at 231mph
1954
Bill Haley&the Comets record single'Rock Around the Clock' In summer of 1955 it hit #1 on music charts, stayed there for 8 weeks
1961
Yuri Gagrin, Russian cosmonaut becomes 1st human to travel into space & orbit the Earth aboard spacecraft, Vostok 1
1992
Euro Disney{Disneyland Paris} opens in Marne-la-Vallee, France. It's the most visited park in Europe,with largest employees over 17,0000
2009
U.S. Navy rescues Capt Richard Phillips after the cargo ship, Maersk Alabama is hijacked by 4 Somali pirates. The Navy killed 3 captured the 4th. The movie version based "Capt Phillips based on his book was released in 2013 starring Tom Hanks
Captain
 
12th April

1606 The Union Flag became the official flag of Britain. It combined the flags of St. George (England) and St. Andrew (Scotland). As Wales was not a Kingdom but a Principality it could not be included on the flag. In 1801 the cross of St. Patrick (Ireland) was incorporated to create the flag that has been flown ever since.

1831 Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester caused it to collapse, reportedly owing to a mechanical resonance induced by troops marching over the bridge in step. Forty of the soldiers were thrown into the river. As a result of the incident the British Military issued an order that troops should 'break step' when crossing a bridge.

1937 British engineer, Frank Whittle, tested the first jet engine at the Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby. The first jet flight was achieved by the German Heinkel, but it was Whittle’s engine that was used as the prototype.

1997 Bosnian bomb plot fails to stop Pope. The Pope arrived in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, at the start of a two-day visit to the war-torn city undeterred by the discovery of a plan to kill him.
 
April 14th:
1828
Noah Webster registers copyright for the publication of 1st American Dictionary"An American Dictionary of the English language'
1865
at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC Pres Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth, dies the next day
1935
Black Sunday dust storms ravages the U.S. Midwest,the region is named 'the Dust Bowl'
1960
Motown Record Company is founded by songwriter, Barry Gordy in Detroit, Michigan
1986
activist, Desmond Tutu is elected as Anglican Archbishop of Capetown, South Africa He served from 1986-1996
1994
Turner Classic Movie{TCM} cable channel is launched by media mogul Ted Turner. The goal is honoring the legacy of classic films. The 1st host was film historian, Robert Osborne from 1994-2106
2021
Coinbase becomes the 1st major cryptocurrency to trade shares on NY Stock Exchange
 
On This Day In History, April 15th

1994 The World Trade Organization is founded
The WTO coordinates and strives to liberalize international trade. It has been criticized for ignoring and escalating the negative social and environmental side-effects of globalization.

1989 A small group of students initiates pro-democracy protest on Tiananmen Square in Beijing
The death of reformer Hu Yaobang triggered the demonstrations, which grew in size and were brutally dispersed in the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4.

1986, the United States launched retaliatory air strikes against Libya
Around 40 Libyans died in Operation El Dorado Canyon, including an infant girl. The attack was the United States' response to the bombing of a Berlin discotheque on April 5, in which 3 people had died.

1945 The German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen is liberated
British and Canadian troops found about 53,000 prisoners inside the camp. Tens of thousands died before and after the liberation.

1935, The Eastman Kodak Company launched Kodachrome
The photographic film was one of the most popular media used by professional and hobby photographers around the world. The product was discontinued in 2009 because of the advent of digital photography.
 
Births On This Day, April 15th 🎂

1894 Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union

1858 Émile Durkheim
French sociologist

1843 Henry James
American/English author

1832 Wilhelm Busch
German poet, painter, and illustrator

1452 Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter, sculptor, and architect

Deaths On This Day, April 15th 🪦

1998 Pol Pot
Cambodian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia

1990 Greta Garbo
Swedish actress

1980 Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher, writer

1889 Father Damien
Flemish missionary, priest

1865 Abraham Lincoln
American lawyer, politician, 16th President
 
16th April

1705 Queen Anne of England knighted the scientist Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge. This knighthood, which made him "Sir Isaac Newton," was a recognition of his contributions to science and mathematics, particularly his work on the laws of motion and gravity.

1746 The Jacobites, under Charles Edward, the Young Pretender (“Bonnie Prince Charlie”), were defeated by British forces under William Augustus, duke of Cumberland.

1912 American Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. She took off from Dover, en route to Calais, France and made the flight in 59 minutes, landing about 25 miles from Calais, on a beach. Although Quimby died at the age of thirty-seven (in an aeroplane accident), she had a major influence upon the role of women in aviation.

1953 Thousands of wellwishers greeted the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh when they arrived at Clydeside to launch the new royal yacht, Britannia.

1964: 'Great Train Robbers' got 300 years. Some of the longest sentences in British criminal history were imposed on men involved in the so-called "Great Train Robbery".
 
1912
U. S. pilot, Harriet Quimby becomes 1st female pilot to cross the English Channel,took her 59 min
She left Dover, England flew to Calais France,
1940
future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, Bob Feller with Cleveland, pitches the 1st& only no hitter on opening day against Chicago White Sox 1-0 at Comiskey Park
1962
broadcast journalist, Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Nightly News,. Over the 2 decades he was known as 'the most trusted man in America' nick name was' Uncle Walter ' .He was replaced by Dan Rather in March 1981
2012
for the 1st time since 1977, no Pulitizer Prize for fiction was awarded
2024
United Arab Emirates records its largest rainfall in 75 yrs, 250mm of rain fell in 24 hrs, flooding the Dubai airport
 
April 17th

The BBC First Broadcast of Hamlet (1937)

On April 17, 1937, the BBC made history by broadcasting its first televised version of Hamlet. This was a significant moment in the history of British television. Shakespeare’s plays had long been a central part of British culture, but this was one of the earliest attempts to bring them to a wider audience using television. The production starred famous British actors of the time and was well received. This broadcast set the stage for future television adaptations of Shakespeare’s works. It also demonstrated the growing importance of television as a cultural medium in Britain.
 
April 17th

1397 Geoffrey Chaucer told the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. He read it in English, the language of the common man, instead of the Norman French usually spoken at court.

1949 At midnight 26 Irish counties officially left the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushered in the Republic of Ireland.

1951 The entire 75-strong crew of a British submarine (HMS Affray) feared dead after going missing off the south coast of England. The search and rescue operation involved twenty-six vessels from Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States, including several British submarines. Additionally, all available civilian aircraft were enlisted to assist in the search operation. After a comprehensive investigation lasting three months and employing remote-control TV cameras aboard the submarine rescue ship HMS Reclaim, the Royal Navy concluded that HMS Affray’s tragic fate resulted from the rupture of the snort mast.

1961 Abortive invasion of Cuba at the BahĂ­a de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs). It was an abortive invasion of Cuba by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro.

1984 WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead during an anti Gadaafi protest outside the Libyan People’s Bureau in London. Ten others were wounded and the events led to an 11-day siege of the building. Diplomatic relations with Libya were severed on 23rd April and her killer escaped under the cloak of diplomatic immunity.

1986 John McCarthy, a British TV journalist, was kidnapped on his way to the airport in the war-torn capital of Lebanon, Beirut.
 
April,18th UK

1949
www.beautifulbritain.co.uk
The first 'Bob-a-Job week' began when 440,000 British Scouts started a nationwide campaign to raise the ÂŁ22,000 needed to cover the deficits of the Scout movement. In the first year ÂŁ60,000 was raised. The variety of jobs undertaken included a 13 year old who spent four hours cleaning the silver at 10 Downing Street.
 
18th April

1506 Pope Julius II laid the first stone for the new St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.

1960 At least 60,000 demonstrators gathered in Trafalgar Square to mark the end of the Aldermaston to London 'ban the bomb' march.

1968 London Bridge was sold for ÂŁ1m to American oil tycoon Robert McCullough.

1980 Rhodesia became Zimbabwe at midnight and independent from Britain. Canaan Banana was the President and Robert Mugabe the Prime Minister.

1986 Guinness, the giant brewery business, won their battle to take over the equally large spirits combine, the Distillers Group. The manner of the takeover was later investigated by the Director of Public Prosecutions and led to arrests of top financial figures including the Guinness chief executive, James Saunders.
 
1906
a 7.9 earthquake& fire in San Francsico destroyed 75% of the city,killing 4,000 people
1924
1st crossword puzzle book is published by Simon& Schuster
1942
debut of Stars&Stripes newspaper for U. S. Armed Forces.It provides news& info of interest, still in operation
1966
Bill Russell becomes the 1st African American in NBA history to become head coach of NBA team, Boston Celtics for 3 yrs 1966- 1969
1995
NFL Hall of Fame football player, QB, Joe Montana announces his retirement after 16yrs. He won 4 Super Bowls with the San Francsico 49'ers,became the 1st player to win 3 MVP Super Bowl awards He played 1yr with Kansas City Chiefs 1993-1994.
He never came back to play again unlike some QB's who came out of retirement
 
April 19th:
1897
world's oldest annual road race, Boston, Mass marathon began ,1st winner JOhn J. McDermott ran in 2 hrs,55 min 10sec
1927
actress Mae West appearing in a NYC stage play' Sex was found guilty of obscenity sentenced to 10 days in jail, fined $500. The publicity launched her Hollywood career
1948
American Broadcast Company{ABC} TV network debuts
1982
Sally Ride was named the youngest{age 32} 1st American woman astronaut. She and her crew mates flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on June 18th 1983. She died in 2012 of pancreatic cancer age 61
1995
terrorist, Timothy Mc Veigh sets a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168, inc 19 children,500 were injured. He was executed by lethal injection in 2001
2021
NASA successfully flies its drone helicopter'Ingenuity' on Mars. Its the 1st powered aircraft to fly on another world
 

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